For Imediate Release
May 15

The Hobie 16 World Championship ended Friday with four more races on the final day.
There were once again marginal double trapeezing winds for the first two races of the day.
There was a long postponement before race three when the winds dipped below the
five knot class minimum. Fortunately the wind filled with a vengance and the last two
races were sailed in about 18 knots. Much credit goes to PRO Paul Ulibarri for patiently
waiting for the wind, not to mention the fantastic work performed by him and his team over the course of the entire regatta. Fourty seven races were run over the two weeks of racing.

The French team of Axel Silvy and Pauline Jupin had another epic day to win the series by seventy five points over the defending champions from Australia.

All of the sailors have had the time of their lives racing in paradise off the beach of this tropical resort. The general consensus is that the event organizer Alberto Ponce put together the best Hobie Worlds ever.


The next Hobie 16 Worlds will be held in South Africa in 2006.

Event website http://www.hobieworlds.com/h16-2004/

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